This Easy Baked Pork Chops and Rice recipe is a family favorite! With bone-in pork chops, Ben’s Original Long Grain & Wild Rice, butter, and simple seasoning, you’ll have a hearty, flavorful dinner on the table in an hour.
Why We Love This Recipe
Want to know one of our family “go-to” dinner hits? It’s this Easy Baked Pork Chops and Rice recipe that my husband made up. He’s such a great cook! What I like about this recipe is that you don’t have to be a great cook to make it. It tastes like you’re a cooking genius, but it’s super easy!
The secret? Use two boxes of Ben’s Original™ Long Grain & Wild Rice (formerly Uncle Ben’s). Besides that, all you need is butter, water, and seasoning for the pork chops. That’s it. Dinner’s done!
Looking for more easy dinners? Check out my Easy Salmon and Asparagus in Foil Packets and try my Easy 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies for dessert.
Ingredients That Make This Dish Perfect
We’re using bone-in pork chops, not boneless. We add season salt to the pork chops before searing them, but you don’t need to add anything to the rice, other than the butter and water that it requires. It’s perfect like it is. Not only that but the rice is what gives this whole dish its awesome flavor.
My husband has been thrilling his audience (me, our two sons and daughter) for years with this dish. One thing he’s a stickler about when he makes this (besides the bone in pork chops, he’s firm on that) is Uncle Ben’s Long Grain & Wild Rice, Original Recipe (Now branded as Ben’s Original Long Grain & Wild Rice Original Recipe). He’s right too. Once you try this dish, you’ll know what I mean. (I mean don’t plan on many leftovers.)
This yummy meal awaits you and it doesn’t take long!
Using a large baking dish, pour in two boxes of Uncle Ben’s Long Grain & Wild Rice, Original Recipe.
Add season salt to the pork chops and sear them in a pan. The left side is how they started and the right is just before they were taken out of the pan.
A tip from Chip! (AKA my husband) Of the water that you’re going to be adding to the recipe, use 1/2 a cup of it to deglaze the pan. That will add some extra flavor from the searing of the pork. Great idea!
Yep, we’re really using the lazy susan that I turned into a chalkboard! I love this thing!
Place the seared pork over the rice and add the 1/2 cup of boiling water from the deglazing of the pan.
Now add the flavor packets from the rice. Sprinkle them over the whole dish, on top of the pork.
Another tip! Melt the butter in the remaining water, while it is at a boil. Here the water was boiled in a electric tea kettle and added to the measuring cup, so do it however you like. It just needs to be or just have been at a boil.
Now pour that melted butter and water over the dish. Cover it with aluminum foil and bake it at 350 degrees for one hour. That’s it! You’re done! Serve it and eat it but don’t try the rice before you serve it or you’ll eat it all yourself. I warned you. LOL!
Easy Baked Pork Chops and Rice
Equipment
- 1 large baking dish 9 x 13
- 1 skillet for searing and deglazing
- Aluminum foil
Ingredients
- 2 boxes Uncle Ben’s Long Grain & Wild Rice Original Recipe
- 6 bone-in pork chops
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 4 ½ cups water
- Season salt for pork chops
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large baking dish, add both boxes of rice.
- Season pork chops with season salt.
- In a skillet, sear pork chops on both sides until lightly browned.
- Place pork chops over the uncooked rice in the baking dish.
- Deglaze the skillet with ½ cup water, bringing it to a boil.
- Pour the boiling water from the deglazed skillet over the pork chops and rice.
- Sprinkle the rice flavor packets evenly over the pork chops and rice.
- Bring the remaining 4 cups of water to a boil.
- Stir in the butter until melted.
- Pour the buttered boiling water over the pork chops and rice.
- Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake for 1 hour.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
Notes
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Family favorite: This recipe is a staple in our home, created by my husband and perfected over the years.
- Easy ingredients: Uses pantry staples like wild rice, butter, and bone-in pork chops.
- Quick prep: No complex steps, just sear, layer, and bake.
Add a fresh green salad on the side to round out the meal.
Easy Dinner Inspiration
This recipe is part of our collection of simple, family-friendly meals. If you love comfort food, you’ll also enjoy:
We love pork chops at our home. Thanks for the rice recipe. Great for a weeknight dinner!
So easy & tasty!! Pinned!
OMG this looks so good pork and rice are my staples at home we just love this combo!
Deglazing the pan can make a BIG difference in how a final dish tastes. I love that Uncle Ben’s offers so many options for rice like this one so dinner can be made in a snap.
This looks amazing. I cook pork chops a few times a month, but I will be trying this recipe out. I usually just use the rice as a side, but I love this idea.
MMM, comfort food! My favorite kind, this looks great!
Oh yum! This looks absolutely delicious!
I love Uncle Ben’s Rice! and hubby loves pork chops. This would be a win in our house for sure.
I’ve been buying Uncle Bens wild rice mix for years – love it and super simple. Great quick recipe! I usually pair it with pork too
I love pork chops but don’t make them often enough.
Looks like a yummy and easy recipe!
That’s looks so amazingly simple yet so amazingly delicious! #client
My husband wanted to get pork chops last week but I never cook them right. I think this may be my no fail pork chop recipe – fingers crossed!